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Apache CXF - Quick Guide
Apache CXF - Introduction

In today's environment, you can create a web service application using several options. You
can use one or more of the several standard and widely accepted protocols for
communication. For example SOAP , XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP , and CORBA
(Common Object Request Broker Architecture, which was very popular in olden days but not
so frequently used now.
You also have a choice of different transports such as HTTP, JMS , JBI and the choice
of front-end API's like JAX-RS and JAX-WS . Having so many options for web service
development, there is a need for an open source services framework to glue all the above
mentioned options together and that is what Apache CXF does.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use CXF to create both a web service and a client that
consumes the service, using one or more of the options that we have listed above. This
tutorial will walk you through the entire code development for both server and the client. As
each application can use only one of the options from each category, namely frontend,
transport and protocol, considering all permutations and combinations of these three, the
number of applications will be exorbitantly high.
This tutorial discusses the development of following projects in detail −
CXF with Plain Old Apache CXF Objects (POJO)
CXF with JAX-WS
CXF with WSDL
CXF with JAX-RS
CXF with JMS
To keep it simple, we have used maven with its command line interface. You may use your
preferred IDE for creating a maven project.
In the next chapter, let us get started with the first one.
Apache CXF with POJO

In this chapter, you will learn how to develop a simple web application that sends a greetings
message to the user. A web service project uses WSDL model. The CXF allows you to
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hide this WSDL model by providing a simple frontend to map Apache CXF APIs to the
underlying WSDL.
In this simplest project, the interface of the web service will be directly exposed to the client
and the client would use native Apache CXF APIs to call the web service.
First, we will create a web service. Every service has an interface that is exposed to the
client. We may write this interface as a simple Apache CXF interface or as a WSDL
document. In this Apache CXF-First approach, we will expose our service through a Apache
CXF interface.
Developing Web Service

The service that we are going to create on the web will have a single web method called
greetings. The method takes a string type argument in which we will send the user's name.
The service will send back a greetings message to the caller with the received user name
included in the message.
Web Service Interface

To expose the interface of our web service, we will create a Apache CXF interface as follows
−
//HelloWorld.java
package com.tutorialspoint.cxf.pojo;
public interface HelloWorld {
String greetings(String text);
}
The interface has only one method called greetings. The server will implement this
interface. In our trivial application, this interface is directly exposed to the client. Typically, in
a web service application, you use WSDL to describe the web service interface. In this
simple application, we will provide this direct interface to the client developer. The client
would then call the greetings message on the server object. So first let us create the web
service.
Web Service Implementation

The HelloWorld interface is implemented in the HelloWorldImpl Apache CXF class as
shown below −
//HelloWorldImpl.java
public class HelloWorldImpl implements HelloWorld {
@Override
public String greetings(String text) {
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return "Hi " + text;

}
}
The greetings method receives a parameter of string type, appends it to a greeting

message and returns the resultant string to the caller.
Next, we write the server application to host the HelloWorld service.
Creating Server
The server application consists of two parts −
The first part creates a factory for our web service, and
The second part writes a main method for instantiating it.
The server uses ServerFactoryBean class provided by CXF libraries to expose our
HelloWorld interface to remote clients. Thus, we first instantiate the ServerFactoryBean
class and then set its various properties −
ServerFactoryBean factory = new ServerFactoryBean();
We set the service class to be called by calling the setServiceClass method on the factory
object −
factory.setServiceClass(HelloWorld.class);
We set the URL for calling our service by calling the factory's setAddress method. Note that
the service will be published at this URL.
factory.setAddress("http://localhost:5000/Hello");
In this case, the service is deployed on the embedded server and will be listening to port
5000. You may opt for any port number of your choice.
Before creating the factory, you need to tell the factory about our service implementation
class. This is done by calling the setServiceBean method on the factory object as shown
here −
factory.setServiceBean(new HelloWorldImpl());
The service bean is set to the instance of our service implementation class. Finally, we
create the factory by calling its create method −
factory.create();
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Now, as we have developed the factory to run our web service, we will next write a main
method to instantiate it and keep it running for some time.
Now, write a main method to instantiate the HelloServer class as follows −
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

new HelloServer();
System.out.println("Listening on port 5000 ...");
}
Once instantiated, the HelloServer class will keep running indefinitely. For production
deployments, you will definitely keep your server running forever. In the current situation, we
would terminate the server after a predetermined time as follows −
Thread.sleep(5 * 60 * 1000);
System.out.println("Server exiting ...");
System.exit(0);
The entire code for the HelloServer class is given below −
//HelloServer.java
//HelloServer.java
import org.apache.cxf.frontend.ServerFactoryBean;
public class HelloServer {
protected HelloServer() throws Exception {
ServerFactoryBean factory = new ServerFactoryBean();
factory.setServiceBean(new HelloWorldImpl());
factory.create();
}
new HelloServer();
System.out.println("Listening on port 5000 ...");
Thread.sleep(5 * 60 * 1000);
System.exit(0);
}
}
The server application that we have created uses ServerFactoryBean class from CXF
libraries. We must now include these libraries in our project to successfully compile the
HelloServer class. We will use Maven to set up the project dependencies.
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Setting up Maven Project

To create a Maven project, type the following command in your command-line window. Note
that we have tested this on a Mac machine. For Windows and Linux installations, the
instructions may differ at few places.
mvn archetype:generate
When asked for the properties, input the following values −
Define value for property 'groupId': : com.tutorialspoint

Define value for property 'artifactId': : cxf-pojo
Define value for property 'version': 1.0-SNAPSHOT: : 1.0
Define value for property 'package': com.tutorialspoint: : com.tutorialspoint.cxf.pojo
On the completion of the maven command, you will find the appropriate folder structure
created in your current folder along with pom.xml file.
The generated directory structure is shown here −
You will add the CXF dependencies in the pom.xml and also copy the above created
Apache CXF files into the appropriate folder of the maven created structure. For your ready
reference, we have given below the pom.xml file for the project that we created on our
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machine.
<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>

<project xmlns = "http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/200
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.tutorialspoint</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-pojo</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>server</id>
<build>
<defaultGoal>test</defaultGoal>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>java</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<mainClass>
com.tutorialspoint.cxf.pojo.HelloServer
</mainClass>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>client</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
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<goal>java</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<mainClass>
com.tutorialspoint.cxf.pojo.HelloClient
</mainClass>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
</profiles>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-features-logging</artifactId>
<version>3.3.0</version>
<type>jar</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-frontend-simple</artifactId>
<type>jar</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-transports-http</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws</artifactId>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-transports-http-jetty</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
<maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
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</properties>
</project>
The above pom.xml may include additional dependencies which are irrelevant to this
project, but are required for our next project in this tutorial. Anyway, there is no harm as
such in including additional dependencies.
Project Folder Structure

The project folder structure on my machine after placing the server and client Apache CXF
files is shown below for your quick reference −
Running Server
To build the project, use the following command in your command-line window −
mvn clean install
You can start the server using the following command −
mvn -Pserver
This will start the server and you will see the following prompt on the console −
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INFO: Creating Service {http://pojo.cxf.tutorialspoint.com/}HelloWorld from class com.t

INFO: Setting the server's publish address to be http://localhost:5000/Hello
Listening on port 5000 ...
Now, in your browser window specify the URL of our published service. You will see the
following output −
This confirms that our service is running at the specified port on a localhost. Since we did
not specify the greetings message in our call, a SOAP fault message is returned to the
browser.
You may further test your web service using a SOAP client of your choice. Here we have
used Postman to test our server.
The output is as shown here −
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Observe that SOAP Request was hand-coded. After posting the request, the server sent a
SOAP Response message, which is seen in the bottom portion of the screen shot.
From this, you can understand that CXF maintains the use of SOAP protocols for both
request and response while providing you a unified view to a variety of web technologies
that do exist in today's world. This greatly simplifies the web application development.
Our next task is to create a client that will consume the web service that you have created.
Creating Client
In the server application HelloWorld is the interface that exposes our web service. The web
service itself just provides a plain greeting message to the client. Usually, the web service
interface is exposed to the outside world using WSDL (Web Services Description
Language). In this trivial application, we will expose our web service to the client by
exposing directly the service interface and that is the HelloWorld.class.
For this purpose, CXF provides a factory class called ClientProxyFactoryBean that allows
us to attach to the desired interface to the created factory instance.
First, we create a factory bean instance as follows −
ClientProxyFactoryBean factory = new ClientProxyFactoryBean();
We call the setAddress method on the factory bean instance to set the URL by which our
web service can be invoked. In our case, we will use the URL used while creating the server
in our earlier step −
Next, we call the create method on the factory instance to attach our service interface
HelloWorld.class to it.
HelloWorld helloServer = factory.create(HelloWorld.class);
Finally, we call the greetings method to invoke the remote web service.
System.out.println(helloServer.greetings(System.getProperty("user.name")));
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This would print a greetings message on your console.
The entire source for the client application is shown below −
//HelloClient.java
import org.apache.cxf.frontend.ClientProxyFactoryBean;
public class HelloClient {
ClientProxyFactoryBean factory = new ClientProxyFactoryBean();
HelloWorld helloServer = factory.create(HelloWorld.class);
System.out.println(helloServer.greetings(System.getProperty("user.name")));
}
}
Running Client
Make sure that the server is still running on your machine. In case, if it has timed out, restart
the server with the following command −
mvn -Pserver
You will see the following message on the console −
Listening on port 5000 ...
Now, before the server times out which we have set to 5 minutes, open another command
line window and start the client with the following command −
mvn -Pclient
You will see a message similar to the following on the command line −
Hi tutorialspoint
Note that tutorialspoint is our user name. You will get a greeting with your own name.
In the next chapter, we will learn how to use CXF in a JAX-WS (Apache CXF API for XML
Web Services) project.
Apache CXF with JAX-WS
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In this JAX-WS application, we will use Apache CXF-first approach like the earlier POJO
application. So first we will create an interface for our web service.
Declaring Service Interface

As in the earlier case, we will create a trivial service that has only one interface method
called greetings. The code for the service interface is shown below −
//HelloWorld.java
package com.tutorialspoint.cxf.jaxws.helloworld;
import javax.jws.WebService;
@WebService
String greetings(String text);
}
We annotate the interface with a @WebService tag. Next, we will implement this interface.
Implementing Web Interface

The implementation of the web interface is shown here −
@Override
public String greetings(String name) {
return ("hi " + name);
}
}
The greetings method is annotated with @Override tag. The method returns a "hi" message
to the caller.
Next, we will write the code for developing the server.
Developing Server
Unlike the POJO application, we will now decouple the interface by using the CXF supplied
Endpoint class to publish our service. This is done in the following two lines of code −
HelloWorld implementor = new HelloWorldImpl();

Endpoint.publish(
"http://localhost:9090/HelloServerPort",
implementor,
new LoggingFeature()
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);
The first parameter of the publish method specifies the URL at which our service will be
made available to the clients. The second parameter specifies the implementation class for
our service. The entire code for the server is shown below −
//Server.java
import javax.xml.ws.Endpoint;
import org.apache.cxf.ext.logging.LoggingFeature;
public class Server {
HelloWorld implementor = new HelloWorldImpl();
Endpoint.publish("http://localhost:9090/HelloServerPort",
implementor,
new LoggingFeature());
System.out.println("Server ready...");
Thread.sleep(5 * 60 * 1000);
System.exit(0);
}
}
To deploy our server, you will need to make few more modifications to your project as listed
below.
Deploying Server
Finally, to deploy the server application, you will need to make one more modification in
pom.xml to setup your application as a web application. The code that you need to add into
your pom.xml is given below −
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>server</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>java</goal>
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</goals>
<configuration>
<mainClass>
com.tutorialspoint.cxf.jaxws.helloworld.Server
</mainClass>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
</profiles>
Before you deploy the application, you need to add two more files to your project. These are
shown in the screenshot below −
These files are CXF standard files which define the mapping for CXFServlet. The code
within the web.xml file is shown here for your quick reference −
//Web.xml
<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"??>
<web-app xmlns = "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="2.5"
xsi:schemaLocation = "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
<display-name>cxf</display-name>
<servlet>
<description>Apache CXF Endpoint</description>
<servlet-name>cxf</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.CXFServlet
</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>
1
</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
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<servlet-name>
cxf
</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>
/services/*
</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<session-config>
<session-timeout>60</session-timeout>
</session-config>
</web-app>
In the cxf-servlet.xml, you declare the properties for your service's endpoint. This is shown
in the code snippet below −
<beans ...>
<jaxws:endpoint xmlns:helloworld = "http://tutorialspoint.com/"
id = "helloHTTP"
address = "http://localhost:9090/HelloServerPort"
serviceName = "helloworld:HelloServiceService"
endpointName = "helloworld:HelloServicePort">
</jaxws:endpoint>
</beans>
Here we define the id for our service endpoint, the address on which the service will be
available, the service name and the endpoint name. Now, you learnt how your service gets
routed and processed by a CXF servlet.
The Final pom.xml

The pom.xml includes a few more dependencies. Rather than describing all the
dependencies, we have included the final version of pom.xml below −
<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"??>

<project xmlns = "http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation = "http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<artifactId>cxf-jaxws</artifactId>
<properties>
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</properties>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>server</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>java</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<mainClass>
com.tutorialspoint.cxf.jaxws.helloworld.Server
</mainClass>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>client</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>java</goal>
<goals>
<configuration>
<mainClass>
com.tutorialspoint.cxf.jaxws.helloworld.Client
</mainClass>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
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</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
</profiles>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
</dependency>
<dependency>
</dependency>
<dependency>
</dependency>
<dependency>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
Note that it also includes a profile for building client that we will be learning in the later
sections of this tutorial.
Running the HelloWorld Service

Now, you are ready to run the web app. In the command window, run the build script using
the following command.
mvn clean install
mvn -Pserver
INFO: Setting the server's publish address to be http://localhost:9090/HelloServerPort

Server ready…
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Like earlier, you can test the server by opening the server URL in your browser.
As we did not specify any operation, only a fault message is returned to the browser by our
application.
Now, try adding the ?wsdl to your URL and you will see the following output −
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So our server application is running as expected. You may use the SOAP Client such as
Postman described earlier to further test your service.
In the next section, we will learn how to write a client that uses our service.
Developing Client
Writing the client in a CXF application is as trivial as writing a server. Here is the complete
code for the client −
//Client.java
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import javax.xml.ws.Service;
import javax.xml.ws.soap.SOAPBinding;
public final class Client {
private static final QName SERVICE_NAME
= new QName("http://helloworld.jaxws.cxf.tutorialspoint.com/",
"HelloWorld");
private static final QName PORT_NAME
= new QName("http://helloworld.jaxws.cxf.tutorialspoint.com/",
"HelloWorldPort");
private Client() {
}
Service service = Service.create(SERVICE_NAME);
System.out.println("service created");
String endpointAddress = "http://localhost:9090/HelloServerPort";
service.addPort(PORT_NAME, SOAPBinding.SOAP11HTTP_BINDING,
endpointAddress);
HelloWorld hw = service.getPort(HelloWorld.class);
System.out.println(hw.greetings("World"));
}
}
Here, we use the CXF supplied Service class to bind to the known service. We call the
create method on the Service class to get an instance of the service. We set the known
port by calling the addPort method on the service instance.
Now, we are ready to consume the service, which we do by first obtaining the service
interface by calling the getPort method on the service instance. Finally, we call our
greetings method to print the greetings message on the console.
Now, as you have learned the basics of CXF by using the Apache CXF-First approach, you
will now learn how to use CXF with WSDL-First approach in our next chapter.
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Apache CXF with WSDL First

The CXF-POJO application that you have developed results in a very tight coupling between
the client and the server. Giving a direct access to the service interface can also pose
severe security threats. Thus, decoupling between the client and the server is usually
desired, which is achieved by using WSDL (Web Services Description Language).
We write the web service interface in a WSDL document which is XML-based. We will use a
tool to map this WSDL to Apache CXF interfaces which are then implemented and used by
our client and server applications. For providing decoupling, starting with a WSDL is a
preferred way. For this, you need to first learn a new language - WSDL. Writing WSDL
needs a careful approach and it would be better if you can gain some understanding on this
before you start working on it.
In this lesson, we will start by defining a web service interface in a WSDL document. We will
learn how to use CXF to create both server and client applications starting with WSDL. We
will keep the application simple to maintain focus on the use of CXF. After the server
application is created we will publish it to a desired URL using a built-in CXF class.
First, let us describe the WSDL that we are going to use.
WSDL for HelloWorld

The webservice that we are going to implement will have one single webmethod called
greetings that accepts a string parameter holding the user name and returns a string
message to the caller after appending a greetings message to the user name. The complete
wsdl is shown below −
//Hello.wsdl
<wsdl:definitions xmlns:soap = "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
xmlns:tns = "http://helloworld.tutorialspoint.com/"
xmlns:wsdl = "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
xmlns:xsd = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
name = "HelloWorld"
targetNamespace = "http://helloworld.tutorialspoint.com/">
<wsdl:types>
<xsd:schema attributeFormDefault = "unqualified"
elementFormDefault = "qualified"
targetNamespace = "http://helloworld.tutorialspoint.com/">
<xsd:element name = "greetings" type = "tns:greetings"/>
<xsd:complexType name = "greetings">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element minOccurs = "0" name = "arg0" type = "xsd:string"/>
</xsd:sequence>
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</xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name = "greetingsResponse"
type = "tns:greetingsResponse"/>
<xsd:complexType name = "greetingsResponse">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element minOccurs = "0" name = "return" type = "xsd:string"/>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:schema>
</wsdl:types>
<wsdl:message name = "greetings">
<wsdl:part element = "tns:greetings" name = "parameters"> </wsdl:part>
</wsdl:message>
<wsdl:message name = "greetingsResponse">
<wsdl:part element = "tns:greetingsResponse" name = "parameters"> </wsdl:part>
</wsdl:message>
<wsdl:portType name = "HelloWorldPortType">
<wsdl:operation name = "greetings">
<wsdl:input message = "tns:greetings" name = "greetings"> </wsdl:input>
<wsdl:output message = "tns:greetingsResponse" name = "greetingsResponse">
</wsdl:output>
</wsdl:operation>
</wsdl:portType>
<wsdl:binding name = "HelloWorldSoapBinding" type = "tns:HelloWorldPortType">
<soap:binding style = "document"
transport = "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>
<wsdl:operation name = "greetings">
<soap:operation soapAction = "" style = "document"/>
<wsdl:input name = "greetings"></wsdl:input>
<wsdl:output name = "greetingsResponse">
<soap:body use = "literal"/>
</wsdl:output>
</wsdl:operation>
</wsdl:binding>
<wsdl:service name = "HelloWorldService">
<wsdl:port binding = "tns:HelloWorldSoapBinding" name = "HelloWorldPort">
<soap:address location = "http://localhost:9090/HelloServerPort"/>
</wsdl:port>
</wsdl:service>
</wsdl:definitions>
Note that writing a syntactically correct wsdl has always been a challenge to the developers;
there are many tools and online editors are available for creating a wsdl. These editors ask
for the names of messages that you want to implement along with the parameters that you
wish to pass in a message and the type of return message that you want your client
application to receive. If you know wsdl syntax, you may hand code the entire document or
use one of the editors to create your own.
In the above wsdl, we have defined a single message called greetings. The message is
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delivered to the service called HelloWorldService that is running at http://localhost:9090

/HelloServerPort.
With this, we will now proceed to server development. Before developing the server, we
need to generate Apache CXF interface to our web service. This is to be done from the
given wsdl. To do this, you use a tool called wsdl2java.
The wsdl2java Plugin

As we will be using maven to build the project, you will need to add the following plugin to
the pom.xml file.
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>cxf-codegen-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>generate-sources</id>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<configuration>
<wsdlOptions>
<wsdlOption>
<wsdl>src/main/resources/hello.wsdl</wsdl>
<faultSerialVersionUID> 1 </faultSerialVersionUID>
</wsdlOption>
</wsdlOptions>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>wsdl2java</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
Note that we specify the location of the wsdl file as src/main/resources/Hello.wsdl. You
will have to make sure that you create an appropriate directory structure for your project and
add the earlier shown hello.wsdl file to the specified folder.
The wsdl2java plugin will compile this wsdl and create Apache CXF classes in a pre-
defined folder. The full project structure is shown here for your ready reference.
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Now, you are ready to create a server using the wsdl2java generated classes. The classes
that wsdl2java has created is shown in the figure below −
Generated Service Interface
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In the list of generated classes, you must have noticed one of them is a Apache CXF
interface - this is HelloWorldPortType.java. Examine this file in your code editor. The file
contents are shown here for your ready reference −
//HelloWorldPortType.java
package com.tutorialspoint.helloworld;
import javax.jws.WebMethod;
import javax.jws.WebParam;
import javax.jws.WebResult;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSeeAlso;
import javax.xml.ws.RequestWrapper;
import javax.xml.ws.ResponseWrapper;
/**
* This class was generated by Apache CXF 3.3.0
* 2019-02-11T12:05:55.220+05:30
* Generated source version: 3.3.0
*
*/
@WebService(targetNamespace = "http://helloworld.tutorialspoint.com/",
name = "HelloWorldPortType")
@XmlSeeAlso({ObjectFactory.class})
public interface HelloWorldPortType {
@WebMethod
@RequestWrapper(localName = "greetings", targetNamespace =
"http://helloworld.tutorialspoint.com/", className =
"com.tutorialspoint.helloworld.Greetings")
@ResponseWrapper(localName = "greetingsResponse", targetNamespace =
"http://helloworld.tutorialspoint.com/", className =
"com.tutorialspoint.helloworld.GreetingsResponse")
@WebResult(name = "return", targetNamespace =
"http://helloworld.tutorialspoint.com/")
public java.lang.String greetings(
@WebParam(name = "arg0", targetNamespace =
"http://helloworld.tutorialspoint.com/")
java.lang.String arg0
);
}
Note that the interface contains a method called greetings. This was a message type in our
wsdl. The wsdl2java tool has added this method to the generated interface. Now, you can
understand that whatever messages you write in your wsdl, a corresponding method would
be generated in the interface.
Now, your task would be to implement all these methods corresponding to the various
messages that you have defined in your wsdl. Note that in the earlier example of Apache
CXF-First, we started out with a Apache CXF interface for our web service. In this case, the
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Apache CXF interface is created from wsdl.
Implementing the Service Interface

The implementation of service interface is trivial. The full implementation is shown in the
listing below −
public class HelloWorldImpl implements HelloWorldPortType {
@Override
public String greetings(String name) {
return ("hi " + name);
}
}
The code implements the sole interface method called greetings. The method takes one
parameter of string type, prepends a "hi" message to it and returns the resultant string to
the caller.
Next, we will write the server application.
Developing Server
Developing server application is once again trivial. Here, we will use the CXF supplied
Endpoint class to publish our service. This is done in the following two lines of code −
HelloWorldPortType implementor = new HelloWorldImpl();

implementor,
First, we create an object of our service implementor class - HelloWorldImpl. Then, we

pass this reference as a second parameter to the publish method. The first parameter is the
address to which the service is published - the clients would use this URL to access the
service. The entire source for the server application is given here −
//Server.java
import javax.xml.ws.Endpoint;
HelloWorldPortType implementor = new HelloWorldImpl();
implementor,
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Thread.sleep(5 * 60 * 1000);
System.out.println("Server exiting");
System.exit(0);
}
}
To build this server class you will need to add a build profile in your pom.xml. This is shown
below −
<profile>
<id>server</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>java</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<mainClass>
com.tutorialspoint.helloworld.Server
</mainClass>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</profile>
Note that the fully qualified name of the Server class is specified in the configuration. Also,
the dependency tag specifies that we will be using the embedded jetty web server to deploy
our server application.
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Deploying Server
Finally, to deploy the server application, you will need to make one more modification in
pom.xml to setup your application as a web application. The code that you need to add into
your pom.xml is given below −
<defaultGoal>install</defaultGoal>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<webXml>src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml</webXml>
<webResources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<targetPath>WEB-INF</targetPath>
<includes>
<include>*.wsdl</include>
</includes>
</resource>
</webResources>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
Before you deploy the application, you need to add two more files to your project. These are
shown in the screenshot below −
These files are CXF standard files which define the mapping for CXFServlet. The code
within the web.xml file is shown here for your quick reference −
//cxf-servlet.xml
<web-app xmlns = "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="2.5"
xsi:schemaLocation = "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
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http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
<servlet>
<description>Apache CXF Endpoint</description>
<servlet-class>
org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.CXFServlet
</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<url-pattern>/services/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<session-config>
<session-timeout>60</session-timeout>
</session-config>
</web-app>
In the cxf-servlet.xml you declare the properties for your service's endpoint. This is shown
in the code snippet below −
<beans ...>
<jaxws:endpoint xmlns:helloworld = "http://tutorialspoint.com/"
id="helloHTTP"
address = "http://localhost:9090/HelloServerPort"
serviceName = "helloworld:HelloServiceService"
endpointName = "helloworld:HelloServicePort">
</jaxws:endpoint>
</beans>
Here we define the id for our service endpoint, the address on which the service will be
available, the service name and the endpoint name. Now, you understand how your service
gets routed and processed by a CXF servlet.
The Final pom.xml

The pom.xml includes a few more dependencies. Rather than describing all the
dependencies, we have included the final version of pom.xml below −
<?xml version="1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>

xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation = "http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/
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<artifactId>cxf-wsdl</artifactId>
<properties>
</properties>
<build>
<defaultGoal>install</defaultGoal>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<webXml>src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml</webXml>
<webResources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<targetPath>WEB-INF</targetPath>
<includes>
<include>*.wsdl</include>
</includes>
</resource>
</webResources>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>cxf-codegen-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>generate-sources</id>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<configuration>
<wsdlOptions>
<wsdlOption>
<wsdl>src/main/resources/Hello.wsdl</wsdl>
<faultSerialVersionUID>1</faultSerialVersionUID>
</wsdlOption>
</wsdlOptions>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>wsdl2java</goal>
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</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>server</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>java</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<mainClass>
com.tutorialspoint.helloworld.Server
</mainClass>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>client</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<executions>
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<execution>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>java</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<mainClass>
com.tutorialspoint.helloworld.Client
</mainClass>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
</profiles>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
</dependency>
<dependency>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-management</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-features-metrics</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf.xjc-utils</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-xjc-runtime</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
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</dependency>
<dependency>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>1.8.0-beta2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
Note that it also includes a profile for building client that we will be learning soon in the later
sections.
Running the HelloWorld Service

Now, you are ready to run the web app. In the command window, run the build script using
the following command.
mvn clean install
This will generate the appropriate Apache CXF classes from your wsdl, compile your
Apache CXF classes, deploy the server on the embedded jetty server and run your
application.
INFO: Setting the server's publish address to be

http://localhost:9090/HelloServerPort
Server ready...
As before, you can test the server by opening the server URL in your browser.
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As we did not specify any operation, only a fault message is returned to the browser by our
application. Now, try adding the ?wsdl to your URL and you will see the following output −
So our server application is running as expected. You may use the SOAP Client such as
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Postman described earlier to further test your service.
The next part of this tutorial is to write a client that uses our service.
Developing Client
Writing the client in a CXF application is as important as writing a server. Here is the
complete code for the client that essentially consists of only three lines, the rest of the lines
just print the service information to the user.
//Client.java
public class Client {
//Create the service client with its default wsdlurl
HelloWorldService helloServiceService = new HelloWorldService();
System.out.println("service: " +
helloServiceService.getServiceName());
System.out.println("wsdl location: " +
helloServiceService.getWSDLDocumentLocation());
HelloWorldPortType helloService =
helloServiceService.getHelloWorldPort();
System.out.println(helloService.greetings
(System.getProperty("user.name")));
}
}
Here, we simply create an instance of our service HelloWorldService, get its port by calling
getHelloWorldPort method, and then pass our greetings message to it. Run the client and
you will see the following output −
service: {http://helloworld.tutorialspoint.com/}HelloWorldService
wsdl location: file:/Users/drsarang/Desktop/tutorialpoint/cxf-
wsdl/src/main/resources/Hello.wsdl
hi drsarang
So far you have learned how to use CXF with Apache CXF-First and WSDL-First
architectures. In the Apache CXF-First approach, you used a POJO with
ServerFactoryBean class from CXF libraries to create a server. To create a client you used
ClientProxyFactoryBean class from CXF library. In the WSDL-First approach, you used
Endpoint class to publish the service at the desired URL and a specified implementor. You
can now extend these techniques to integrate different protocols and transports.
Apache CXF with JAX-RS
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Before proceeding ahead into this chapter, we assume that you know how to write a
RESTful web service in Java. I will show you how to use CXF on top of this JAX-RS (Java
API for RESTful Web Services) . We will create a web service that maintains a list of latest
movies. When the user requests a movie, he specifies the movie ID in his request, the
server will locate the movie and return it to the client. In our trivial case, we will simply return
the movie name to the client and not the actual binary MP4 file. So let us start creating a
JAX-RS application.
Declaring Movie Element

We will declare an XML root element called Movie for storing the id and the name for a
given movie. The element is declared in a file called Movie.java. The contents of the file are
shown here −
//Movie.java
package com.tutorialspoint.cxf.jaxrs.movie;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
@XmlRootElement(name = "Movie")
public class Movie {
private long id;
private String name;
public long getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(long id) {
this.id = id;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
}
Note the use of XmlRootElement tag to declare the XML element for the Movie tag. Next,
we will create a service that holds the list of movies in its database.
Creating Movie Service Database

To store the list of movies we use Java supplied Map that stores the key-value pairs. If the
list is large, you will use an external database storage which will also be easier to manage.
In our trivial case, we will store only five movies in our database. The code for the
MovieService class is given below −
//MovieService.java
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import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.PathParam;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
@Path("/movieservice/")
@Produces("text/xml")
public class MovieService {
long currentId = 123;
Map<Long, Movie> movies = new HashMap<>();
public MovieService() {
init();
}
@GET
@Path("/movie/{id}/")
public Movie getMovie(@PathParam("id") String id) {
long idNumber = Long.parseLong(id);
return movies.get(idNumber);
}
final void init() {
Movie c1 = new Movie();
c1.setName("Aquaman");
c1.setId(1001);
movies.put(c1.getId(), c1);

c2.setName("Mission Imposssible");
c2.setId(1002);

c3.setName("Black Panther");
c3.setId(1003);

c4.setName("A Star is Born");
c4.setId(1004);

c5.setName("The Meg");
c5.setId(1005);
}
}
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Note that we use the following two annotations to specify the URL path for our movie service
and its return type −
@Path("/movieservice/")
@Produces("text/xml")
We use the @GET and @Path annotations to specify the URL for the GET request as
follows −
@GET
@Path("/movie/{id}/")
The movie database itself is initialized in the init method, where we add five movie items to
the database.
Our next task is to write a server application.
Developing Server
To create a server, we use CXF supplied JAXRSServerFactoryBean class.
JAXRSServerFactoryBean factory = new JAXRSServerFactoryBean();
We set its resource classes by calling the setResourceClasses method.
factory.setResourceClasses(Movie.class);
factory.setResourceClasses(MovieService.class);
We set the service provider by calling the setResourceProvider method.
factory.setResourceProvider(MovieService.class,
new SingletonResourceProvider(new MovieService()));
We set the desired publish address by calling the aetAddress method −
factory.setAddress("http://localhost:9000/");
Finally, we publish the server by calling the create method on the factory instance.
factory.create();
The entire code for the server application is given below −
//Server.java
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import org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.JAXRSServerFactoryBean;
import org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.lifecycle.SingletonResourceProvider;
JAXRSServerFactoryBean factory = new JAXRSServerFactoryBean();
factory.setResourceClasses(Movie.class);
factory.setResourceClasses(MovieService.class);
factory.setResourceProvider(MovieService.class,
new SingletonResourceProvider(new MovieService()));
factory.setAddress("http://localhost:9000/");
factory.create();
Thread.sleep(5 * 60 * 1000);

System.exit(0);
}
}
The Final pom.xml

Here we have included the final version of pom.xml below −

<artifactId>cxf-jaxrs</artifactId>
<properties>
</properties>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>server</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
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<executions>
<execution>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>java</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<mainClass>
com.tutorialspoint.cxf.jaxrs.movie.Server
</mainClass>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>client</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>java</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<mainClass>
com.tutorialspoint.cxf.jaxrs.movie.Client
</mainClass>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
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</build>
</profile>
</profiles>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
</dependency>
<dependency>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-frontend-jaxrs</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>jakarta.ws.rs</groupId>
<artifactId>jakarta.ws.rs-api</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
<artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
Developing Client
Writing the RS client is trivial. We simply create a URL object and open its stream. We use
CXF supplied IOUtils class to copy the contents of input stream to a local stream.
URL url = new URL("http://localhost:9000/movieservice/movie/1002");

try (InputStream instream = url.openStream();
CachedOutputStream outstream = new CachedOutputStream()) {
IOUtils.copy(instream, outstream);
}
The entire code for the client application is given below −
//Client.java
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import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URL;
import org.apache.cxf.helpers.IOUtils;
import org.apache.cxf.io.CachedOutputStream;
public class Client {
URL url = new URL("http://localhost:9000/movieservice/movie/1002");
try (InputStream instream = url.openStream();
CachedOutputStream outstream = new CachedOutputStream()) {
IOUtils.copy(instream, outstream);
String str = outstream.getOut().toString();
System.out.println(str);
}
}
}
Testing JAX-RS Application

Run the server using the following command in the command-line window −
mvn -Pserver
Now, you will see the following message on the console −
INFO: Setting the server's publish address to be http://localhost:9000
Now, open your browser and type the following URL −
http://localhost:9000/movieservice/movie/1002
You will see the following in the browser window.
You may invoke the service by using a Java client application that we have developed by
running the following command in a separate command-line window.
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mvn -Pclient
You will see the following output −
<?xml version="1.0" encoding = "UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<Movie><id>1002</id><name>Mission Imposssible</name></Movie>
CXF samples provides several examples on how to use CXF with JAX-RS. The interested
readers are encouraged to study these samples.
Apache CXF with JMS

As mentioned earlier, you can use CXF with JMS transport. In this case, the client will send
a JMS message to a known Messaging Server. Our server application is continuously
listening to the messaging server for the incoming messages. When the message arrives, it
processes the message, executes the client request and sends the response as another
message to the client.
As earlier, we will first create a sample server application that provides a singular web
method called sayHi.
Creating Service Interface

The service interface for our HelloWorld service is shown here −
//HelloWorld.java
package com.tutorialspoint.service;
import javax.jws.WebMethod;
import javax.jws.WebParam;
@WebService
@WebMethod
String sayHi(@WebParam(name = "name") String name);
}
Implementing Service
The implementation of the service interface is defined as follows −
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package com.tutorialspoint.service.impl;
import com.tutorialspoint.service.HelloWorld;
@WebService
@Override
public String sayHi(String name) {
return "Hello " + name;
}
}
The implementation simply returns a Hello message to the user. As you see, the interface
and its implementation are similar to all the earlier projects in this tutorial that you have
studied so far.
Now, comes the most important point which is to create a server application that sets up a
message queue and keeps on listening to the incoming messages.
Creating Server
In the server application, first we create a JMS end point as follows −
private static final String JMS_ENDPOINT_URI =

"jms:queue:test.cxf.jmstransport.queue?timeToLive=1000"
+ "&jndiConnectionFactoryName=ConnectionFactory"
+ "&jndiInitialContextFactory"
+ "= org.apache.activemq.jndi.ActiveMQInitialContextFactory"
+ "&jndiURL = tcp://localhost:61616";
Note that we set up a queue on a specified port that lives for a specified amount of time. We
now create a messaging service by instantiating
org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerService class. This is a server class for ActiveMQ
messaging server.
BrokerService broker = new BrokerService();
You may use any other messaging server of your choice other than ActiveMQ. We now
connect this server to a desired URI.
broker.addConnector("tcp://localhost:61616");
We set up the directory for the data storage of the incoming messages −
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broker.setDataDirectory("target/activemq-data");
Finally, we start the server using the start method −
broker.start();
Next, we create an instance of our service bean HelloWorld using the server factory bean
class as used in our earlier POJO application −
Object implementor = new HelloWorldImpl();

JaxWsServerFactoryBean factory = new JaxWsServerFactoryBean();
Next, we set up the JMS endpoint on the factory so that the factory will keep on listening to
the incoming messages −
factory.setTransportId
(JMSSpecConstants.SOAP_JMS_SPECIFICATION_TRANSPORTID);
factory.setAddress(JMS_ENDPOINT_URI);
Finally, we set up the implementer class in the factory and start running it −
factory.setServiceBean(implementor);
factory.create();
At this point your server is up and running. Note that since we have used the factory bean
class as in the POJO application, the need for CXFServlet and the web.xml file is not
required.
The full server application code is shown here −
//ServerJMS.java
package com.tutorialspoint.server;
import java.util.Collections;
import org.apache.cxf.jaxws.JaxWsServerFactoryBean;
import org.apache.cxf.transport.jms.spec.JMSSpecConstants;
import com.tutorialspoint.service.impl.HelloWorldImpl;
import org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerService;
public final class ServerJMS {
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+ "= org.apache.activemq.jndi.ActiveMQInitialContextFactory"
BrokerService broker = new BrokerService();

broker.addConnector("tcp://localhost:61616");
broker.setDataDirectory("target/activemq-data");
broker.start();
Object implementor = new HelloWorldImpl();

JaxWsServerFactoryBean factory = new JaxWsServerFactoryBean();
factory.setTransportId
(JMSSpecConstants.SOAP_JMS_SPECIFICATION_TRANSPORTID);
factory.setServiceBean(implementor);
factory.setFeatures(Collections.singletonList(new LoggingFeature()));
factory.create();
Thread.sleep(5 * 60 * 1000);
System.out.println("Server exiting");
System.exit(0);
}
}
Adding Dependencies
The server application that we have created uses ActiveMQ messaging server. Thus, you
will need to add few more dependencies to your project. The complete pom.xml file is shown
here for you to understand the additional needed dependencies.

<artifactId>cxf-jms</artifactId>
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<properties>
</properties>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>server</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>java</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<mainClass>
com.tutorialspoint.server.ServerJMS
</mainClass>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>client</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>java</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<mainClass>
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com.tutorialspoint.client.ClientJMS
</mainClass>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
</profiles>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.activemq</groupId>
<artifactId>activemq-broker</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.activemq</groupId>
<artifactId>activemq-kahadb-store</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-transports-jms</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
</dependency>
<dependency>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
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Running Server
To start running the server, as in the earlier cases, type the following command in your
command window −
mvn -Pserver
This will start the ActiveMQ message server, set up the messaging queue and create a
factory bean that keeps listening to this queue.
Our next task is to create a client application.
Creating Client
In the client application, first we set up the JMS endpoint same as the one used in the server
application −

+ " = org.apache.activemq.jndi.ActiveMQInitialContextFactory"
We create a factory as in the POJO application.
JaxWsProxyFactoryBean factory = new JaxWsProxyFactoryBean();
We set the endpoint URI and the implementer class as follows −
factory.setTransportId (JMSSpecConstants.SOAP_JMS_SPECIFICATION_TRANSPORTID);
factory.setAddress (JMS_ENDPOINT_URI);
HelloWorld client = factory.create(HelloWorld.class);
Finally, we call the service method and print its resultant output −
String reply = client.sayHi("TutorialsPoint");

System.out.println(reply);
The complete client code is given below −
// ClientJMS.java
package com.tutorialspoint.client;
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import org.apache.cxf.jaxws.JaxWsProxyFactoryBean;
import org.apache.cxf.transport.jms.spec.JMSSpecConstants;
public final class ClientJMS {

+ " = org.apache.activemq.jndi.ActiveMQInitialContextFactory"

JaxWsProxyFactoryBean factory = new JaxWsProxyFactoryBean();
factory.setTransportId(JMSSpecConstants.SOAP_JMS_SPECIFICATION_TRANSPORTID);
HelloWorld client = factory.create(HelloWorld.class);
String reply = client.sayHi("TutorialsPoint");
System.out.println(reply);
System.exit(0);
}
}
Apache CXF - Conclusion

CXF provides a unified approach to mix-n-match several web protocols and transports that
exist in today’s world for creating web applications. You learned how to start with a
traditional Java interface to create a web application that uses CXF. Next, you learned how
to create a web application and its client starting with WSDL.
The WSDL provides an XML representation of your service interface. You used wsdl2java
tool to create Java interfaces from WSDL and finally wrote both the server and the client
using the created interfaces. The tutorial also briefly introduced you to use CXF in your
RESTful web service application. Finally, we also discussed how CXF can be used with
JMS. You may now refer to CXF-samples for further study.
Note − The entire project source code may be downloaded from here.
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Apache CXF - Quick Guide

Apache CXF - Introduction

This tutorial discusses the development of following projects in detail −

CXF with Plain Old Apache CXF Objects (POJO)

CXF with JAX-WS

CXF with WSDL

CXF with JAX-RS

CXF with JMS

Apache CXF with POJO

Developing Web Service

Web Service Interface

Web Service Implementation

return "Hi " + text;

The greetings method receives a parameter of string type, appends it to a greeting

Next, we write the server application to host the HelloWorld service.

The second part writes a main method for instantiating it.

ServerFactoryBean factory = new ServerFactoryBean();

Now, write a main method to instantiate the HelloServer class as follows −

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

The entire code for the HelloServer class is given below −

Setting up Maven Project

When asked for the properties, input the following values −

Define value for property 'groupId': : com.tutorialspoint

The generated directory structure is shown here −

<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>

Project Folder Structure

mvn clean install

You can start the server using the following command −

INFO: Creating Service {http://pojo.cxf.tutorialspoint.com/}HelloWorld from class com.t

The output is as shown here −

First, we create a factory bean instance as follows −

ClientProxyFactoryBean factory = new ClientProxyFactoryBean();

HelloWorld helloServer = factory.create(HelloWorld.class);

This would print a greetings message on your console.

The entire source for the client application is shown below −

You will see the following message on the console −

Listening on port 5000 ...

Apache CXF with JAX-WS

Declaring Service Interface

Implementing Web Interface

Next, we will write the code for developing the server.

HelloWorld implementor = new HelloWorldImpl();

The Final pom.xml

<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"??>

Running the HelloWorld Service

mvn clean install

You will see the following message on the console −

INFO: Setting the server's publish address to be http://localhost:9090/HelloServerPort

Apache CXF with WSDL First

First, let us describe the WSDL that we are going to use.

WSDL for HelloWorld

delivered to the service called HelloWorldService that is running at http://localhost:9090

The wsdl2java Plugin

Generated Service Interface

Apache CXF interface is created from wsdl.

Implementing the Service Interface

Next, we will write the server application.

HelloWorldPortType implementor = new HelloWorldImpl();

First, we create an object of our service implementor class - HelloWorldImpl. Then, we

The Final pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>

Running the HelloWorld Service